I wish I could stop

Nah. I don't really. I called it quits on my first public blog after I realizing that quite a few of my coworkers knew exactly what I had done the night before. I became acutely aware of this when somebody living in all together different continent told me about comments about my posts at a local office party. I didn't particularly care for the people at that party and I shut down my blog within hours, if not minutes, of having that information. I switched to a Moleskine diary and stayed away from the Net for a few days but I promptly came to the conclusion that I wanted to keep an on-line diary. It's easier to write, easier to search, it has links and pictures and audio and video (my Moleskine on the other hand has drawings, and scraps and it's way more convenient for spur of the moment thoughts, not to mention the very private stuff). All I really needed to do was to keep my confessions password protected. So I started my second Lunarpages-hosted WordPress blog. I also kept a secret blog for a very short time, during a family emergency. Now both my first and second blogs are too long to easily publish with Blurb (I want a hard copy just in case the Internet ceases to exist someday) but instead of stopping already I am starting a third one. Open. No password. Or no password yet. I might change my mind about this later but my blog has proved so far the best way to stay in touch with friends, better than Skype, better than e-mail, better than Facebook.

On a completely different subject: I got myself a nice little Linux pen drive for my birthday. The guys over at Zareason were very friendly and went out of their way to make sure I got it in less than 24 hours. I now want to try Ubuntu on my old iMac. If it works I'll use that machine for home automation. I also want to get back my very first iMac (which is now sitting in a friend's basement) and use it as an Internet terminal. That's the plan. Hope it works.